Daniel witt



DANIEL VITT, OF TEMPLETON, ASSIGNOB OF TWO-TIIIRDS TO CHARLES A.

ADAMS AND ALBERT R. WHITNEY, OF WINGIIENDON, MASS.

COMBINED WRENCH AND PIPE-TONGS.

LEPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,495, dated September 23, 1884-. Application filed July 25, 1.883. (No model.)

fo all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, DANIEL Vrrr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Templeton, in the county of l/Voreester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Wrench and Piperlongs, of which the following is a specica-v tion.

My invention consists in pivoting the sliding jaw in that class of wrenches known as monkey-Wrenches, and providing the same with a lever-handle, so it may be rotated on its pivot, and its toothed surface made to engage a pipe or rod held against the fixed jaw, and in certain details of construction, which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l showsawrench embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 shows atop and sectional view on line X X. i

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views,

A is the fixed jaw, and B the Xed jaw-bar, which is bent at B to allow it to accommodate large pipeV or rods. The bar B has also a thread, H,`at its lower end, on which bar the handle I may be screwed, and secured by the nut K. Inclosing and slidingr upon the jaw-bar B is a block, F, which carries at its lower end the arm F, inclosing a neck or groove inthe nut G, which may be turned on the threaded portion of the bar, and thereby' actuate the sliding block F.

To the sliding block F, I pivot at D the lever C, whose lower end forms ahandle, J, and

whose upper end forms ajaw, A', whose at surface or face c willv be parallel with and opposed to the hat surface c on the iiXed jaw A when the handles J and I are brought together. The tool may` then be used for a wrench, the jaw A being capable of adjustment with reference to the fixed jaw A, so as to suit nuts of different sizes, and the pivot D being nearly or quite under the jaw A, the strain upon the jaw in turning the :uut will have but a slight tendency to turn the jaw upon the pivot D. The handles .I and I may be fastened together by a link or other means,

as is now frequently done inthe case of pipecorner having the teeth E is brought against the pipe l?, holding it firmly against the face of the fixed jaw A, as shown in Fig. l. The lever C is mortised at G to inclose the sliding block F, and the pivot D (shown in Fig. 1, and by the broken lines in Fig. 2) passes through the two inclosing sides of the mortise C', and through the sliding block F. In order to furnish a better bearing for the pipe or rod, I make a portion of the face of the fixed jaw concave, as at b, and the bar B, I bend at B', so as to allow larger-sized pipe to be received between the jaws. The bar B is also made'lat, so the block F may be slipped on and off over the threaded end H by removing the handle J.

I d o not conne myself to 'the above-described method of actuating the sliding block F, as it will readily be seen any ofthe methods in use for actuating the sliding jaws of the socalled monkey-wrenches77 wouldb'e equally and having a jaw, A, so formed at the endof 85 f the pivoted handle that when the handles J and I are brought together the face of the jaws A and A will be parallel and opposing and at right angles to the bar B, all combined and operating as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. rllhe combination, with a combined wrench and pipetongs having abar, B, threaded at I-I, fixed head A, nut G, and sliding block F, pivoted lever O, with jaw A, of a plate, a, having one cr more teeth, E, at the end and attached pintle D, and having' a jaw, A', soforlned at the end of the pivoted handle that when the handles J and I are brought together the face 15 lof the jawsA and A will be parallel and op posing and at right angles to the bar, all oombined and operating as described, and for the 3. The combined wrench and pipe-tongs, l purpose set forth.

consisting of bar B, fixed jaw A, sliding block F, inclosing the bar B, with suitable connected Io means for actuating the sliding block, mortised lever handle C, inolosing the sliding l block F, and pivoted thereto by means of the I ADANIEL WITT.

Witnesses:

RUFUs B. FOWLER, B. M. MoGRoHAN. 

